Todays Politics of the Mexican Government
Even with the National Action Party's 61-year existence it was only able to gain the support required to win an election this past year (lcweb2, frd_7olY). The party had always, with the exception of two elections, been able to win second place to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. It took the character of Vicente Fox to win the popular vote and remove the long ruling PRI. Fox wasn't the only force helping to end the 71 year one party rule, the National Democratic Institute, which oversees the validity of elections in democratically struggling countries, watched carefully to see that the PRI did not continue its traditional election tampering. With the election of Fox, the Mexican people are expecting the new party to do what the former government couldn't. If Fox fails it could lead the country away from the path to democracy. Vicente Fox is a 58-year-old divorced father of four adopted children who had spent most of his adult life rising through the political ranks and fighting the PRI the whole way. He was not unaccustomed to fighting his way to success after his career with Mexico's Coca-Cola Corporation. He began at Coke as a route supervisor and within 10 years became the company's youngest president at age 3
Fox not only had to convince people the long ruling government had to go but also had to convince voters not to split this "vote for change" between his party and the other major candidate Cardenas (ft, 92e). Fox also had to overcome the election tampering that had become so evident in Mexico. Fox's advisor Andres Rozental believes that the contries involved in drug trafficking fall into three major categories, the producing, the transiting, and the consuming countries. Fox had the help of NDI (National Democratic Institution) with this large task. The Campaign was a tough one, Fox and Labastida, the PRI candidate, were considered to be in a dead heat right up to the election. All of Mexico, the ruling party and opposing parties worked with the NDI to reform the political system. To do this Fox would like to change programs within Mexico and also change the relationship with Mexico and foreign powers, especially the United States. Within Mexico he wishes to double the education budget and increase private medical services leaving the government to care for only the poorest Mexicans. (pbs, 1-5) The programs spoken of by Fox are just that, words. Rather than depend on the support of those in the National Action Party, Fox established the "Friends of Fox" to raise the money and the support for his presidential run (ft, spc886). Mexican's voted for change, not for Fox so his ability to make changes will be what he will be judged by. In the same year he began his protest of fraud in the presidential elections by taping the burning of electoral ballots. With the new forces in politics and Fox's appeal to the people's desire for change he won with almost 43% of the vote (ft, 06). Entering politics at 1987 he won a federal Congressman's seat just a year later.
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